[H]e had scarce advanced beyond the Pons Asinorum, when his ardour abated, the test of truth by demonstration did not elevate him to those transports of joy with which his preceptor had regaled his expectation; and before he arrived at the fortieth and seventh proposition, he began to yawn drearily […].

Looking to raise share and beat back the future, the media raise an imaginary problem, say, a cyber-tsunami of online kiddie porn. Out in Televisionland, parents who have already been driven into a state of omniphobia by TV depictions of kidnappers, child molesters, and Calvin Klein commercials, freak out and call their congressperson.

See also: PIE

Thus, in its work with destitute children, the protectory did everything it could to keep families together.